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cespitose

cespitose adjective: tufty; growing in tufts.

Adjective

cespitose (comparative more cespitose, superlative most cespitose)

  1. tufty; growing in tufts.
    • A cespitose or turfy plant has many stems from the same root, usually forming a close, thick carpet of matting.1793, Thomas Martyn, The Language of Botany

Forms of cespitose

comparativemore cespitose
superlativemost cespitose
alternative formcaespitose
alternative formcaespitous

Origin of cespitose

Latin caespes (“turf”).

Words formed from cespitose

Questions about cespitose

What does cespitose mean?
Cespitose means tufty; growing in tufts.
What part of speech is cespitose?
Cespitose is an adjective.

Words near cespitose in the dictionary

  1. cesium nitrate
  2. Cesky terrier
  3. Cesky terriers
  4. cespitine
  5. cespititious
  6. cespitose
  7. cespitosely
  8. cespitous
  9. cespitulose
  10. cesplumtantite
  11. cess

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